Data Engineer

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Data Engineer to work for our client within the retail sector. This is initially a 3 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a role that will be based in Leeds. Our client is looking for a hands-on Data Engineer to design and build the data pipelines that will extend our data platform into new domains. Working alongside a Product Owner, you will move data from source through to production-ready models that power analytics and insight for the business and its partners. This is a delivery-focused role for an engineer who is as comfortable modelling data and building robust pipelines as they are working with stakeholders to understand what the business needs from its data. You will help shape the underlying data architecture as the platform grows, so a pragmatic, quality-first mindset matters as much as technical skill.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain data pipelines to reliably ingest, transform and load data from a range of internal and external sources.
• Design and implement data models that support consistent, reusable and well-governed data for downstream analytics and reporting.
• Develop transformations in cloud data warehouse environments, optimising for performance, cost and scalability.
• Partner closely with the Product Owner and analysts to translate business and reporting requirements into technical data solutions.
• Uphold data quality and governance through validation, testing and monitoring, ensuring pipelines are production-ready and dependable.
• Contribute to the platform's data architecture, helping extend it into new data domains as the offering grows.
• Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences, documenting models, pipelines and data definitions.

About You

Hands-on experience with Google BigQuery. Hands-on experience with Snowflake. Proven data pipeline experience, designing, building and maintaining production data pipelines (ETL / ELT). Strong data modelling experience, including schema design and dimensional modelling for analytics. Confident SQL and a solid grounding in transforming and preparing data at scale. Ability to work with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements and explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Desirable: Experience in retail, or knowledge of the retail media industry. Familiarity with modern transformation tooling and version control (for example dbt, Git). Exposure to orchestration and data quality frameworks.

About Us

FDM is an award-winning global leader in tech and business talent solutions, backed by more than 35 years of industry experience. We have centres across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer, currently listed on the FTSE4Good Index and as a 2026 Financial Times UK ‘Best Employer’.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave and work-place pension